Protect your business name in Vietnam
In Vietnam, business name is considered as trademark. Thus, in order to protect your business name, you should register the trademark in Trademark Office of Vietnam (NOIP).
(Q&A) Possible trademark opposition in Vietnam
Q: Now we have a new client who has found a third party has filed a highly similar trademark application in Vietnam.
Please let us know if you can help our client to handle the opposition and let us know your needing fees and documents for doing so.
Your timely reply...
Q&A: Possible new trademark application in Vietnam
Q: Now we are a USA company who would like to file one trademark application under four classes without claiming priority in USA. Before their formal application, we would like to perform a trademark availability search for the four classes first. And we would like to entrust your esteemed...
Trademark assignment recordal in Vietnam
SBLAW would like to introduce the trademark assignment recordal in Vietnam as follows:
Trademark Registration Process in Vietnam
Please be advised that In Vietnam, multi-class applications are acceptable i.e. an application can be filed for more than one class of goods or service with payment of additional fee for additional class. Class headings or general description of goods/services is no longer acceptable[...]
Black and white trademark or color trademark in Vietnam
SBLaw is well-known trademark attorney office in Vietnam. Sometime, we received client’s question about the color of trademark which is filed at National Office of Interllectual Property (NOIP) in Vietnam. [...]
Notification of substantive examination results
On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest, the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]
Review of Trademark and Copyright Agreement
S&B Law understands that Client is now in need of our assistance in
(i) Reviewing the Trademark and Copyright Agreement (“Agreement”) to protect the highest possible rights and interests of Client while ensuring the compliance of the same with prevailing laws of Vietnam and
(ii) Reviewing the translation of the Agreement...
Acts of infringing upon the rights to trademark
The following acts if being performed without the permission of mark owners, shall be regarded as infringements of the rights to marks:
Procedure of the Trademark examination
In order to reach the trademark registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]
Renewal of trademark in Vietnam
As a leading IP agent in Vietnam, we would like to provide some information about renewal of trademark registration in Vietnam as follows[...]
Adopting the Vietnamese Version of the Nice Classification of Goods and Service 11-2018
From January 01, 2018, The Vietnamese version of the Nice Classification 11th Edition - version 2018 (NCL 11-2018), translated by the National Office of Intellectual Property (NOIP) from the English version published by WIPO, will be applied to the classification of goods and services for trademark registrations.
Applicants who do...
Trademark registration
Client: I'm a trademark attorney from Russia. My client is interested in trademark (word mark, 1 class) registration in Vietnam. Will you inform me about our service cost, official fees and the time it will take to finish the registration procedure?
Lawyer: Thank for your email regarding the subject matter. As...
Cancellation of a Registered Trademark in Vietnam
SBLAW would like to advise the cancellation of registered trademark in Vietnam as follows
Principle of priority
An applicant for registration of a trade mark may claim priority on the basis of the first application for registration of protection of the same subject matter if the following conditions are fully satisfied[...]
